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...recommendation in this respect : In word*, ns fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old . Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Рорв. t Except in Greek and foreign words, as system, tyrant, myrrh, alcJtymy, &c....

...which can immortal glory give To her own virtues, must for ever live. 7. But most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth or rough, with them is right or wrong ; In the bright muse, though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to...

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...in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1 ' Unlucky 83 Fungoso : ' see Ben Johnson's ' Every Man in his Humour.' But most by numbers...

...in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1 ' Unlucky as Fungoso : ' see Ben Johnson's ' Every Han in his Humour.1 But most by numbers...

...that we can follow : — " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new or old. Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. 4. Grammatical errors are common to almost all our early great authors...

...different subjects sort. As several garbs with country, town, and court. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong ; In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to...

...heavy mules' are neither horse' nor ass*. POPE. 39. HARMONY OF EXPRESSION. BUT most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them is right or wrong : In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to...

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